The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-04-01
THE WEST.


ONE hundred Western brewers met in
Chicago yesterday and organized pro-
tective association to fight the oppOsers of
the beer traffic and settle disputes with
workmen
CARUTHERs, the great pitcher, has signed
with the St. Louis team. It IS understood
that he is to receive g, 600
THE blockade on the Canadian Pacific
railway has been raised and trains now run
to the Pacific Ocean.
THE Consolidated Street Railway Com
pany of Cincinnati has given way to It's
men in every respect.
JUDGE CHARLES R. WHITE OF the Com
mon Pleas Court OF Springfield, o., has
decided that Bohemian oats notes are valid
in innocent hands.
THE jackson family-fathcr, mother and
two children-were drowned in the recent
food at Painted Woods, near Bismarck,
Oak
AN attempt was made recently to assassi-
nate George s. Bailey, at Springfield, Ill
He belonged to the Labor party, represent
ing East st. Louis in the Legislature, and
it was thought the attempt at assassina-
tion was made by anarchists, whom he
strongly opposed.
THE aggregate of hogs slaughtered in Chi
cago during the twelve months ended March
l was 4, ,426, 900, or n decrease 501, 900 as COM
pared to one year ago The decrease is at
tributed to the stock-yards strike OF last
November The number of cattle slIught-
cred during the same period was 1,60S. 900.
This shows an increase OF 2O0,OO0 head over
any previous year.
THE Democrats of Chicago have placed
in nomination the following, ticket: For
mayor, Carter II. Harrison; for city treas
| urer, John H McAvoy; for city attorney,
Charles Allen; for city clerk, Henry Stuck
art.
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and wounded Frank Porter in Arizona has
been captured.
TWELVE miners were burned to death at
Bessemer, Mich, recently by the boarding
house of the Colby mine taking fire. The
occupants were asleep at the time. Some
! few escaped by leaping from the windows.
THE demands of the dissatisfied employees
of the North Chicago rolling mills have
been conceded almost in their entirety.
EVERY few weeks the country is informed
that the Tongue River Indians, of Montana,
are starving to death. A recent dispatch
from Agent Upshaw was to the effect that
no Indians under that agency have starved
to death, and that they are drawing their
customary ratiOns.
AT the passenger meeting of the Central
Traffic Association at Chicago recently con-
siderable ill-feeHng was developed over the
refusal of the Chicago & Grand Trunk road
TO agree TO the abrogation of second class
rates. The abOlishment OF commissions
was also discussed and a report made to
the managers that it was not feasible, as
several of the lines refused To agree to the
reform.
The Miners Association of the coke
region has elected John Mcbride, of Column
bus, o., and William Mullen, of ScOttdale,
Pa. arbitrators. Tho board to settle the
wage dispute will meet soon.
SODA pop and mineral water bottling
works of Chicago have effected consOlda-
tiOn with a capital stock of S6OO,OOO, and
have placed all their manufactures, deliv-
cry wagons and other appliances into the
pool Only three firms remained outside of
the combination.
THE Grand Trunk railway has cut loose,
so a Chicago report says, from the Central
| Traffic Association.
AN extra session of the Missouri LCgisla-
| tnre has been called for May H.
| JACKSON MARION was hanged at Beatrice,
| Neb., on the 23th, for the murder Of John
! Cameron in 1872.
! BY collision on a heavy grade near Lee
onia, O., the other morning, two ears of an
/ express train We're wrecked and the en-
! gineer killed and six persons injured. An
attempt to repair an arr brake was the
cause